A vividly designed treasure trove of stunning sculptures, ceramics, and world-famous works of art that were all found on the Acropolis, including five of the original Caryatids from the Erechtheion temple.

The 14,000 square meter glass and concrete landmark designed by architect Bernard Tschumi opened in 2009 and is consistently included on lists of the world’s top 10 museums, known for its historically significant contents as well as its architectural design.

The Parthenon Gallery on the top floor is ingeniously designed to recreate the magnificent temple’s frieze at the same orientation as the Parthenon on the Acropolis, utilizing cast copies of sections that are currently in the British Museum and other collections.

Acropolis Museum

The National Archaeological Museum ranks among the leading archaeological museums in the world, holding the richest collection of Greek artefacts dating from prehistory to late antiquity. Construction began in 1866 with a design by Ludwig Lange and was completed by the famed architect Ernst Ziller in 1889.

The museum contains more than 11,000 items on permanent display across its 8,000 square meters of exhibition space. The objects are organized into 5 collections: Prehistoric (Neolithic, Cycladic, Mycenean antiquities and finds from the prehistoric settlement of Thira), Sculptures, Vases and Minor Arts, Metalwork, and Egyptian & Cypriot Antiquities. 

Among the most popular objects on display are the Mask of “Agamemnon”, the Santorini frescoes, the bronze Zeus/Poseidon of Artemision, and the “Jockey” of Artemision.

In addition to the impressive permanent collections, the museum also hosts temporary exhibitions and educational programs.

28is Oktovriou 44, Athens

Tel: +30 210 900 0901

National Archaeological Museum

While Byzantine culture was almost entirely concerned with religious expression, there was a great diversity of techniques, subjects, and approaches used throughout the Byzantine world.

This diversity is demonstrated through a collection of more than 30,000 artefacts dating from the 3rd to the 21st century. The objects include icons, sculptures, ceramics, ecclesiastical textiles, paintings, jewelries, and architectural elements (wall paintings and mosaics) from all the Greek world as well as regions in which Hellenism flourished. Look out for miniature sculptures on themes such as the ‘Descent into Hell’ and the ninth-century relief carving of the ‘Tree of Life’.

The main building was constructed in 1848 in the style of a Florentine Palace to serve as the home of the Duchess of Plaisance. A 12,000 square meter underground wing was added in the 1990s.

Did you know? Byzantine painters used gold to emphasize the distance separating the figures in the icons from the material world.

Vasilissis Sofias Ave. 22, Athens

Tel: +30 213 213 9517

Byzantine and Christian Museum

An exceptional museum with a collection of more than 500,000 artefacts, the Numismatic Museum is a literal treasury of historical data tracing the political, commercial, religious, and social life of Greek or other city-states, kings, and rulers through the ages. The collection specializes mainly in coins as well as medals, lead balls, seals, weights, spears, and talents dating from the 14th century BCE to today.

The museum is housed inside the mansion built for Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist who discovered the ruins of Troy. Hence the building is named Iliou Melathron (Palace of Troy). The house was constructed between 1878 and 1880 by the famous architect Ernst Ziller in a romanticized neoclassical style that also included elements from the Italian Renaissance. You’ll see Pompeian-style frescoes, floor mosaics depicting Schliemann’s finds at Troy and Mycenae, and excerpts from Greek literary texts as wall decorations.

 El. Venizelou Ave. 12, Athens

Tel: +30 210 364 3774

Numismatic Museum

The museum is housed in the Stoa of Attalos, a structure built in the 2nd century BCE as a gift to Athens from the King of Pergamon. In antiquity, the stoa was used as a meeting place and as a commercial center.

Fully reconstructed on the ruins of the ancient building from original and new materials, the museum has been operating since 1957 to house the findings of the excavations of the Agora dating from Neolithic times to the post-Byzantine era.

Adrianou Street 24, Athens

Tel: +30 21 0321 0185

Museum of the Ancient Agora

The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Fivos Anoyanakis” – Centre for Ethnomusicology is housed in one of Plaka’s oldest surviving mansions built around 1840. It is one of the last remaining examples of architecture from the reign of King Otto.

The museum displays 1,200 Greek musical instruments and sound emitting objects dating from the 18th century to the present day. In 1978, Fivos Anoyanakis, a musicologist and pioneering researcher of Greek traditional music, donated this unique collection, his library and his archive to the Greek State.

Though the museum is small in size, the exhibits are arranged in a manner that will draw your attention, grouped according to how the sound is initially produced (membranophones, aerophones, chordophones etc.) as well as the body of the instrument. Video projections and audio samples highlight the intangible aspect of the instruments.

The museum was founded in 1991 and is housed in the former residence of the politician and scholar Georgios Lassanis. It was built using surplus material from the construction of the palace of King Otto.

Diogenous Street 1, Athina

Tel: +30 210 325 0198

Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments

Housed in two mansions of the 19th century, the museum occupies buildings at no. 5 (1859) and no. 7 (1833) on Paparrigopoulou Street. The latter was used from 1836-1842 as the first royal residence in Athens of King Otto and Queen Amalia.

The museum is home to many fine examples of furniture, paintings, and engravings that showcase the modern history of Athens from the early 18th to the 20th century. The royal memorabilia include the cooking utensils used by Otto and Amalia and a suite that recreates Amalia’s parlour, including personal items such as her piano. The collection of etchings and engravings create a visual timeline of the city’s evolution over the last three centuries.

Paparigopoulou Street, 5-7, Klafthmonos Square, Athens

Tel: +30 210 324 6164

Athens City Museum

Permanently housed in the Old Parliament building on Stadiou Street, the museum narrates the story of modern Greece from the period of Ottoman and Latin rule to the Greek War of Independence (1821), the creation of the independent Greek State until the 20th century. The exhibits are a vivid presentation of historical events through works of art and objects with a focus on the War of Independence.

The Old Parliament was designed by the architect François Boulanger and built from 1858-1875 with modifications by architect Panagiotis Kalkos after the first building was destroyed by fire. It served as the National Parliament from 1875 until 1935.

A must-see is Ektor Doukas’s oil painting “The Women of Pindus” showing the delivery of supplies to Greek troops at the start of the Second World War and immortalizing the active role of women in the country’s history. Another wing of the museum is dedicated to the support of the Greek revolution from philhellenes like Lord Byron.

Old Parliament Building, Stadiou Street 13, Athens

Tel: +30 210 323 7617

National Historical Museum

From dinosaurs to fossils, this neoclassical mansion, built in 1875, is Greece’s largest Museum of Natural History and a fantastic family-friendly attraction. Converted into a research centre in 1964, both the building and collection have undergone a radical transformation since its early days.

Young visitors will love the T-rex replica. Sea life enthusiasts should check out the marine biology section, where riches of Greek and international waters surface. The tranquil garden cafe is an attraction in itself.

London’s Museum of Natural History played a large role in the creation of the Gaia exhibition, which tells the story of our planet and how it works.

Levidou Street 13, Kifisia

Tel: +30 210 801 5870

Goulandris Natural History Museum

Considered one of the most significant museums of its kind in the world, the Epigraphic Museum has a collection of more than 14,000 inscriptions dating from the 8th century BCE to the Early Christian, Byzantine, and later times, in ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and other languages.

The museum was founded in 1885, but the present building is the result of a series of alterations made during the 1950s. It occupies the south wing of the National Archaeological Museum and is accessed through a dedicated entrance on 1 Tositsa Street.

At first glance, the Epigraphic Museum might seem specialized, but there’s much to fascinate the lay visitor in the 14,000 objects of the collection. The exhibit includes a complete account of the costs for the construction of the Parthenon, as well as a kleroterion, an allotment machine used for appointing the Athenian officials that has been dated to around 162 BCE.

Tositsa 1, Exarchia, Athens

Tel: +30 210 8232950

Epigraphic Museum

Founded in 1977, the museum is dedicated to the history and tradition of Greek Jews. The collection comprises more than 8,000 objects tracing 2,300 years of Jewish history in Greece, including objects, photographs, archival documents, as well as domestic and personal items.

The museum was initially located in a small room next to the Athens Synagogue. In 1998, the collection was moved to its present home, a renovated four-story neoclassical building on Nikis Street near Syntagma Square. Only the exterior walls of the existing 19th century building were maintained while the interior was completely rebuilt to meet the demands of a modern museum.

Nikis Street, 39, Athens

Tel: +30 210 322 5582

Jewish Museum of Greece

From the Stone Age to the Classical Period, and from Alexander the Great to World War II, the War Museum narrates the history of Greece through military conflicts. The exhibits include military paraphernalia, models of warships and aircrafts, flags, maps, and other memorabilia. Various types of artillery guns and war aircrafts are on display in the yard.

The heroic Greek resistance mounted against the Nazis is given special emphasis in the displays. A display titled “This is how the conquerors passed through Greece” contains a stark reminder of the price Greece paid for its defiance: 8% of its population was killed from 1940-1944.

A must-see is the lightboard map that shows how news of the Trojan War was transmitted to Mycenae by fire beacons. Although planned and built in 1970 by the military junta as a “monument to Greek valour and military prowess,” the War Museum didn’t open until after the dictatorship’s collapse in 1974.

Rizari Street 2, Athens

Tel: +30 210 725 2974 - 5-6

War Museum

Built in the early 1900s in the art deco style, the building was the private residence of Aspasia Manos, the wife of King Alexandros I, before it was taken over by the Athens News Agency. The exhibits include replicas and reconstructions of the pioneering technology invented by ancient Greeks, from navigation, medicine, and telecoms to agriculture, textiles, and sports.

Don’t leave without seeing the theatre sets that include rotating scenes, moving stages, and a mechanism that literally delivered the Deus ex Machina to the stage.

Pindarou Street, 6, Athens

Tel: +30 693 183 1530

Museum of Ancient Greek Technology Kostas Kotsanas

This rich collection offers an intriguing perspective on Greek history, highlighting social and regional differences through clothing and headdresses. Dating back to ancient Greece, what people wore and even how they styled their hair, communicated vital information about their social and personal status as well as their origins.

The building constructed in the 1920s shows the first signs of the transition from neoclassicism to modernism. It was purchased in 1935 for the Lyceum Club of Greek Women which, during the Nazi occupation, hosted soup kitchens for children and sheltered some 150 people left homeless by the 1944 bombing of Piraeus.

Well worth seeing is the iconic “Amalia” costume that was created by Greece’s first queen to dress her female court. This urban dress follows the European style but retains elements from the Greek traditional costumes. The design inspired the creation of several “Amalia-nized” styles that became popular in Greece and across the Balkans.

Dimokritou Street, 7, Athens

Tel: +30 210 362 9513

Museum of the History of the Greek Costume

This must-see museum showcases the history of the city of Piraeus from the Mycenaean to the Roman Era, covering more than 2,200 years during which the port city thrived as a naval base for ancient Athens and as a major military and commercial center for the Eastern Mediterranean.

The core exhibits were unearthed in Piraeus and along the Attica coastline, including remnants of the 2nd century BCE theatre of Zea that can be seen in the museum gardens. The collection was assembled in 1935 and moved to its current location in 1966.

Did you know that the 4th century BCE bronze statues that were unearthed during works on Piraeus’ sewage system in 1959 were buried there during antiquity for safekeeping against conquerors?

Charilaou Trikoupi Street 31, Piraeus

Tel: +30 210 452 1598

Archaeological Museum of Piraeus

The Museum was founded in 1949 and housed in its current location since 1969.

The first attempt to establish a museum dedicated to Greece’s maritime history was in 1867 by Captain Gerasimos Zohios. But the project was not realised until influential Piraeus residents banded together with naval officers and lobbied the Greek government for an official archive of the country’s maritime achievements 82 years later. This unsung little museum narrates the Greece’s mighty naval past from antiquity to the 20th century through maps, ship models, nautical instruments, weapons, furniture, wonderful paintings, and everything naval.

A whole section is devoted to the private collection of Aristotle Onassis, a trove of sea-related treasures that once adorned his extravagant yacht, the Christina.

Akti Themistokleous, Freattis, 185 37 Piraeus

Tel.: 210 451 6264 - 210 451 6822 - 210 428 6959 - 210 428 6430

Hellenic Maritime Museum

This non-profit foundation discovers, collects, preserves and studies all materials associated with the art of functional Greek pottery from the 16th to 20th centuries.

The building is a  handsome neoclassical structure that was erected as a private residence in 1875. In 1999, the centre for the study of traditional Greek pottery was established in the building.

Since the earliest of times, earthenware vessels have been entwined with many sacred Greek customs and ceremonies surrounding life and death. Look out for the large black and white photograph of a very odd Greek ritual: Every Easter Saturday on Corfu, locals hurl giant clay pots from their windows and balconies as the church bells toll.

Melidoni Street 4-6, Kerameikos, Athens

Tel: +30 210 331 8491

Museum of Modern Pottery

A rich collection of economic, cultural, and political archives of Greece from 1841 to the 1960s is displayed in the building of the National Bank of Greece. Erected during 1923-1926 by architect Nikolaos Zoumboulidis and engineer Aristidis Balanos, it was the first building in Greece dedicated to house archives. The Historical Archives are accessible to all visitors and scholars.

The National Bank of Greece was the country’s first credit institution founded in 1841 and its archives remain one of the richest sources of information on the country’s economy, social and political life over the past two centuries. Since 2002, Historical Archive has also undertaken the management and presentation of the collections of the National Bank of Greece, which include documents, currency, photographs, stamps, calendars, even furniture.

Megaro Diomidi, Tritis Septemvriou Street 146, Athens

Tel.: +30 210 880 7804

Historical Archive of the National Bank of Greece

A naval hero that became a museum, the Battleship G. Averof was built during 1908-1911 in Livorno, Italy, and went on to become the crown jewel of the Greek Navy as an undefeated symbol of a nation, spanning 40 years of service to Greece.

The Averof was purchased from the Italian Navy for 24 million drachmas (around €70,000 in today’s worth). One third of the sum was donated by the estate of the Greek tycoon, Georgios Averof. The battleship was launched on March 12, 1910 and decommissioned in 1952.

It’s hard to understate the value of the Averof in Greece’s naval history. It led Greece into victory during the Balkan Wars of 1910-1912, and assisted in the transport of refugees from Asia Minor in 1922. Today, it operates as a museum, thus fulfilling its benefactor’s wishes.

Marina Flisvos, Trokadero, Paleo Faliro 175 10

Tel: +30 210 988 8211

Floating Naval Museum - Battleship "Georgios Averof"

This secret Museum in Plaka, built in 1884, was once a private residence and now contains a private collection of Greek Art. The works date all the way from prehistoric to post-Byzantine times.

The collectors’ preference for clay, marble, and stone vessels lends an interesting depth to  the core collection. The new wing of the museum (added in 2010) incorporates the ruins of a medieval residence that was part of the outer fortification walls of the Acropolis.

Theorias Street 12, 105 55 Plaka, Athens

Tel: + 30 210 324 4447

Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum

In this small, purpose-built museum, opened in November 2015 on the grounds of Plato’s Academy (now an archaeological park), philosophy and digital technology meet in a playful exploration of Plato’s school of thought.

Travel back in time and muse on the enduring philosophical questions posed by Plato on the very spot where he walked and taught 2,500 years ago. Interactive installations and video projections help you to navigate a profound world of ideas that has influenced modern thought and inspired humanity for two millennia.

The highlight is a digital replica of the cave, which Plato described in The Republic, likening uneducated minds to prisoners chained inside a cave, unable to think for themselves or discover their own path to enlightenment.

Alkmeonos Street 1, Athens

Tel: +30 210 514 2138

The first Greek museum dedicated to the experience of internal political exiles, the Ai Stratis Museum is a journey into several dark periods of modern Greek history.

Opened in 2006, the museum contains poignant personal items such as the bridal gown of a young woman who was executed before her wedding, and a chess set carved from stale bread. Particularly moving are the paintings and sketches by acclaimed Greek artists that were created during exile or inspired by their experience.

Ai Stratis is a small Aegean Island that served as a place of incarceration for political prisoners during several periods from 1926 until 1962 when the camp was permanently shut down.

Ag. Asomaton Street 31, Athens

Tel: +30 210 321 3488

Ai Stratis Political Exiles Museum

The latest blockbuster museum to open in Athens is an extraordinary roll call of modern masters – Picasso, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Pollock, Bacon, and Chagall. The late Basil and Elise Goulandris’ private art collection includes 180 sculptures, paintings, and sketches created by some of the most important artists of the late 19th and early 20th century. There are also two floors devoted to 20th century and contemporary Greek art.

The structure hovers above the façade of a three-story 1920s building in the neighbourhood of Pangrati. The courtyard was designed to complement the steps leading up to the church of Agios Spyridon, which was built in 1903 on designs by the noted German architect Ernst Ziller.

This museum was established in 1986 to house one of the most complete private collections of Cycladic Art in the world. The collection includes examples from all phases of the distinctive Cycladic Island culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age, as well as collections of Ancient Greek, Roman and Cypriot Art. The most prized exhibits are of course the Cycladic figurines that comprise the core of the collection.

Temporary exhibitions are held in the Stathatos Mansion, a neoclassical residence with a porticoed entrance, roof statuary and atrium. The Stathatos Mansion was constructed on designs by Ernst Ziller as the residence and offices of shipowner and coal merchant Othon Stathatos.

The bold work of Alex  Mylona, a pioneer of the Greek modernist movement, is showcased at this museum, spanning from the 1950s until her death in 2016.

Alex Mylona’s abstract bronze, marble, iron and copper sculptures are displayed across three floors of galleries. The museum also regularly hosts contemporary art exhibitions, performances and workshops. A small section is devoted to Mylona’s colourful paintings of the female form, striking an interesting contrast to her stark sculptures, which drew wide attention when she represented Greece at the Venice Biennale in 1960.

Built in the 1920s, the museum was designed by architect Vassilis Tsagris. This listed mansion was renovated in 2004 and converted by Mylona into a contemporary art museum.

Agion Asomaton Square 5, Athens

On the site of a former car dealership and repair shop, the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 has come to symbolise the modern dynamic of Athens, and especially the gentrification of the neighbourhoods, west and south of Omonia.

This impressive contemporary building with its brick and glass-fronted ramps and skylit atrium is a top venue for photography, design, architecture and fashion exhibitions. It was built in the 1950s, re-designed by architects Maria Kokkinou and Andreas Kourkoulas, and opened in 2004.

World-famous performance artist Marina Abramovic staged AS ONE, a six-week interactive performance here in 2016. Designed to push the boundaries between mind and body, audience participation included blindfolded tours, counting grains of rice, or sitting and staring into a stranger’s eyes in silence.

Pireos Street, 138, Athens

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika is perhaps the most influential 20th-century Greek painter,whose works hang in London’s Tate Gallery, Paris’ Musee d’Art Moderne and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Ghika Gallery in Athens offers rare insight into his world and his work, spanning the period from 1930 to 1990, while showcasing the cultural output of the seminal  ‘1930s Generation’ of Greek artists, poets and architects who were swept up in the modernist movement.

This modernist structure, built in 1932, was designed by the noted architect Konstantinos Kitsikis, who was tasked with creating a new urban plan for Thessaloniki after the city was destroyed by fire in 1917. Originally confined to his fourth-floor apartment and fifth-floor studio, the Ghika Gallery now occupies the entire building.

A cross between cultural center and museum, the Theocharakis Foundation has the mission to promote music and fine arts both nationally and internationally, especially by introducing them to children and younger audiences.

The building was constructed in the 1920s, designed by architect Vassilis Tsagris in the eclectic style of the interwar period. It has served various functions, especially as office space before being acquired by the Theocharakis Foundation in 2005.

The Museum of Folk Art and Tradition has been operating since 1980 inside the former home of the Greek folklorist Angeliki Chatzimichali. The museum houses collections of folk objects, including examples of woodcarving, metalwork, pottery, traditional costumes, embroidery, and carpets made on looms.

The building in Plaka is a historical object in itself. Built in 1929, it is the work of the architect Aristotle Zachos, harmoniously combining traditional elements with neo-Byzantine and Macedonian styles. The visitor can also approach the life and work of Angeliki Chatzimichali through the furniture, books, letters and personal belongings of the folklorist.

The home and studio of George Gounaropoulos, a Greek painter who captured light on canvas to brilliant effect.

G. Gounaropoulos (1889-1977) was one of the forerunners of modern art in Greece. In his oneiric and ethereal paintings, Gounaropoulos absorbed the aesthetics of cubism and surrealism, as he experienced them in Paris from 1919 – 1930, alongside elements from his Greek cultural heritage.

Gounaropoulos’ paintings can also be seen in the Athens City Council where his ‘Exaltation of Pericles’ covers the chamber’s southern wall. But it’s worth veering off track to this small museum for a more immersive experience of his work.

Gounaropoulou 6, Athens

+30 210 777 7601

Divided into two sections, this off the beaten track museum will give visitors an overview of both contemporary and folk art in Greece.

Formerly two 19th century dwellings and a stable, it was turned into a residence, and then a museum by the Greek journalist Ian Vorres in a bid to salvage what he saw as a disappearing Greek cultural wealth, due to rapid post-World War II urbanisation.

Vorres’ former residence, set out over six secluded acres, became a museum in 1983 where artefacts, contemporary art and ephemera spanning two-and-a-half millennia sit side-by-side in a spirited narrative of Greek national and cultural identity.

Parodos Diadochou Constantinou 1, Peania

+30 210 664 2520

Vorres Museum

This porticoed residence shows off the work of an acclaimed artist who was dedicated to both sculpture and painting. Initially the home and studio of Yiannis Pappas, the museum currently doubles as a work space for students of the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Pappas was a prolific sculptor of busts and figures of politicians and other prominent personalities who produced more than 700 works over seven decades.

The nearly 3,000 works are a cross-section of the Athenian art scene, featuring the leading Greek artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The 1830s building that was designed by the Danish architect Christian Hansen was originally a silk factory that gave the surrounding Metaxourgio district its name (metaxi is Greek for ‘silk’). 

Vlassis Frissiras founded this intimate museum in the year 2000 with a private collection of modern European art. Frissiras presents a collection of approximately 4,000 works of contemporary European paintings, engravings, and sculptures by artists such as Jean Rustin, Chronis Botsoglou, Eduard Sacaillan, Alexander Tinei, Leonardo Cremonini, Apostolos Georgiou, Takis and many more. Various thematic exhibitions are organized every year.

The building at No. 3 Monis Asteriou Street dates to 1860, while No. 7 was built in 1904 and bears the mark of architect Ernst Ziller. Both buildings have undergone renovation, yet the internal courtyard of the two buildings remains intact.

Originally the home of a wealthy family from Hydra, the museum in the seaside suburb of Palio Faliro opened in 2017 with a collection of toys dating from antiquity up to the 20th century. Its holdings, based on the collection of Maria Argyriadi that is considered among the most important in Europe, include more than 20,000 objects that range from hand-made dolls in traditional Greek folk costumes to puppets from Sicily, wind-up toys, model trains, and board games sourced from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

The only place in Greece where you’ll see such an extensive collection of historic and iconic cars, divided into antique, veteran, vintage, classic, modern and contemporary.

The museum was purpose-built to house the 300+ automobiles belonging to Greek real estate and shipping magnate Theodore Haragionis.

A quirky museum for petrolheads and classic car aficionados of all ages.

This family-friendly museum takes you back in time, via a range of industrial equipment from the early 20th century and immersive 3D projections.

Kids and adults can get up close to the giant relics of the early industrial age at this natural gas plant that provided light and energy to Athens for over 130 years.

Follow the production line, and learn all about the industrial machinery, on a theatrical guided tour in English or French.

A museum of shadow puppets and props of the famous Karagiozis. Karagiozis, the central character of Greek shadow puppet theatre, is deeply embedded in Greek popular culture—a downtrodden figure who uses deceit and flattery to outwit his Ottoman overlord.

This small venue contains sets, props and puppets used by the master shadow-puppet player Evgenios Spatharis. He first began touring with Karagiozis during the Second World War and his shows were popular throughout Greece right up to the early 1980s.

More of an interactive, indoor play area than a museum, these immersive exhibits and activities encourage young children to explore the world they live in. Founded in 1987 by a team of young educational experts, the museum has been housed in the Athens Conservatory since 2017.

Activities range from displays on Pythagoras to help kids grasp geometry, to a mini marketplace with bakery, pharmacy and a butcher’s shop to teach them about supply and demand. Activities are in Greek, but most staff speak English.

Dedicated solely to art by children, this is one of the few museums in the world that exhibits work made by children aged 4-14.

The museum opened its doors in 1994 in a neoclassical building on a quiet street in Plaka. Its mission is to introduce children to art as a form of self-expression. There are over 10,000 pieces of art in the collection, a number that grows each year.

Don’t miss the drawings created by children at the Hippokrateio Hospital in Athens between 1945 and 1948. The collection started when the wife of the owner gave the children color pencils, encouraging them to draw to feel comforted. The collection is of great artistic and historical value since it includes drawings created by children right after the German Occupation of Greece and during the Greek Civil War.

An interactive museum that explores the intersection of maths, science, and art. There’s always something interesting happening at this small, forward-looking museum. You’ll find everything from kid-friendly replicas of ancient Greek machines to exhibitions by major international artists.

Built in the 19th century, the museum comprises two buildings; both of them,  likely former residences. Number 16 was originally two buildings, now joined by a courtyard.

Housed in the University of Athens, this museum was founded in 1908 with collections formed by the Natural History Society in 1835. In 1979, the exhibits were moved from a neoclassical building in Akadimias Street to the university grounds, where they were stored until 1996. In an attempt to repair the 19th century cases, the collection was severely damaged and had to be re-identified for the museum’s opening in 2000.

Mineral, crystal and rock samples of extraordinary beauty, meteorite fragments and precious ornaments are now displayed in three halls and the exhibition is one of international repute. Visitors can marvel at findings from exhausted sites of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, the German empire and Tsarist Russia.